However, task view also is able to filter this list when you create virtual desktops, so only the relevant windows appear. The top part of this view shows previews of the windows you have open, just like Alt+Tab. Task view is also where you can go to switch between desktops. You may find the need to have more desktops…the possibilities are endless. I like to run my work email and Office apps on the first desktop and open my personal browsing on my second desktop. Just like how you can run as many application windows as you like, there’s also no limit to how many desktops you can create. To add a new desktop simply click the task view button on your taskbar and click the “new desktop” button. Keep you in control of the degree of separation between your grouped windows.Let you easily re-organize your groups and move windows as tasks evolve.Help you quickly locate and switch to any window or group of windows.Give you more desktop space to group related windows.Here are some high-level goals we identified: For those of you who like to organize your windows, we want to make sure that we offer the right experience to create and manage these groups. The same approaches also apply to open windows on a desktop. We see this regularly with the way people handle email and directory structures for files. For instance, we know that there are “filers” who like to separate things into subsets and then there are “pilers” who prefer to tackle tasks in a single group. When our team set out to build virtual desktops into Windows 10 we first took the time to understand how different people approach organization. Given the growing popularity of this organizational tool, we decided to build a native virtual desktop experience directly into Windows 10. Many other OSes and third-party utilities have also embraced the power of virtual desktops.

Microsoft offered the Virtual Desktop Manager as part of the Windows XP PowerToys and a little while later released the Sysinternals Desktops add-on which enabled similar functionality. In fact, Xerox PARC created one of the earliest virtual desktop experiences called Rooms back in the 1980s and subsequently made a version available for Windows 3.x. Having desktops beyond the limitations of a physical display is a powerful way to organize and quickly access groups of windows. We know there’s a vocal set of people who just love virtual desktops.

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